Looks like the January games have been announced, and they finally have a good, somewhat recent game in Sleeping Dogs and there will also be Lara Croft: Guardian of Light.

I had Sleeping Dogs but traded it in when I couldn't get past the martial arts combat in some places. So I guess I'll give it another try, seeing how it is free and all

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Hey, potentially dumb X360 question relating to Games with Gold. I happened to see that earlier in this thread it mentioned that Rainbow Six Vegas was the September game. I thought I had downloaded it but when I went to the dashboard and looked at "My Games" it wasn't shown. However, when I searched the marketplace for the game it said that yes, I owned it and would I like to download it again?

So my question is, is there a place on the dashboard that will show me games like that, ones I've bought (or got free) but deleted from my hard drive?

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"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everyone doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life" - Stephen King

Hey, potentially dumb X360 question relating to Games with Gold. I happened to see that earlier in this thread it mentioned that Rainbow Six Vegas was the September game. I thought I had downloaded it but when I went to the dashboard and looked at "My Games" it wasn't shown. However, when I searched the marketplace for the game it said that yes, I owned it and would I like to download it again?

So my question is, is there a place on the dashboard that will show me games like that, ones I've bought (or got free) but deleted from my hard drive?

Redownload content on your consoleSign in to Xbox Live using the gamertag that you used when you originally purchased the content.Go to Settings and select Account.Select Download History.Browse your download history and find the item that you want to download again.Select the item, and then select Download Again.

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Redownload content on your consoleSign in to Xbox Live using the gamertag that you used when you originally purchased the content.Go to Settings and select Account.Select Download History.Browse your download history and find the item that you want to download again.Select the item, and then select Download Again.

Excellent info, thanks!

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"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everyone doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life" - Stephen King

Looks like the January games have been announced, and they finally have a good, somewhat recent game in Sleeping Dogs and there will also be Lara Croft: Guardian of Light.

Roughly a year and a half after PS+ gave Guardian of Light away for their members.

Hey it's only 9 months after Plus gave away Sleeping Dogs. Seriously though, Pllus started off pretty crappy for games and got much better. GFG seems to be getting better and Microsoft didn't give up on it right at the end of their initial announcement. So I'm pretty happy about it even if I've played both of the games. Competition could make both of them even better.

I really enjoyed Sleeping Dogs. It was much better than expected. I actually got the Platinum on PS3. It deserves more exposure.

Looks like the January games have been announced, and they finally have a good, somewhat recent game in Sleeping Dogs and there will also be Lara Croft: Guardian of Light.

Roughly a year and a half after PS+ gave Guardian of Light away for their members.

Hey it's only 9 months after Plus gave away Sleeping Dogs. Seriously though, Pllus started off pretty crappy for games and got much better. GFG seems to be getting better and Microsoft didn't give up on it right at the end of their initial announcement. So I'm pretty happy about it even if I've played both of the games. Competition could make both of them even better.

I really enjoyed Sleeping Dogs. It was much better than expected. I actually got the Platinum on PS3. It deserves more exposure.

Microsoft is gonna have to get allot better if there's to be any sort of competition in the monthly free games area. PS+ subs got these games awhile ago, and this month will get Brothers and Bioshock Inifinite. Frankly there's no comparison between the two offerings on a month to month basis.

Looks like the January games have been announced, and they finally have a good, somewhat recent game in Sleeping Dogs and there will also be Lara Croft: Guardian of Light.

Roughly a year and a half after PS+ gave Guardian of Light away for their members.

Hey it's only 9 months after Plus gave away Sleeping Dogs. Seriously though, Pllus started off pretty crappy for games and got much better. GFG seems to be getting better and Microsoft didn't give up on it right at the end of their initial announcement. So I'm pretty happy about it even if I've played both of the games. Competition could make both of them even better.

I really enjoyed Sleeping Dogs. It was much better than expected. I actually got the Platinum on PS3. It deserves more exposure.

Microsoft is gonna have to get allot better if there's to be any sort of competition in the monthly free games area. PS+ subs got these games awhile ago, and this month will get Brothers and Bioshock Inifinite. Frankly there's no comparison between the two offerings on a month to month basis.

I'm curious - do you get the game for the month only, or for as long as you keep a PSN+ account?

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"If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners." - Johnny Carson

"One of our issues with Games with Gold — not 'issues,' but differences between the other system we get compared to, is the fact that with Games with Gold, you get to keep that game, regardless of whether you continue to subscribe," Spencer said. "And the business around Games with Gold, for us, is just fundamentally different from some of the other programs that are out there, which does put a different financial picture on a — you're gonna go buy a game that's brand new, the cost of putting that in, just to be kind of blunt about it."

OTOH, while I'm sure it would be a challenge to change the infrastructure to such a degree, I'm not sure why they don't make it so that this is not an issue with GwG.

Still, good to hear that better options will be coming. Is GwG on Xbone yet??

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"The cause of death was asphyxiation, or smothering, in layman's terms."

That's a pretty weak straw man argument he makes. So yea you get to keep playing the game even if you stop paying for Gold on your Xbox..oh and you will also lose online, and access to all the apps/services that are behind the paywall. How many are going to do that? All of these console platforms frankly pretty much require the subscription part if you really want to use them how they were designed.

I don't see a way for MS to offer something similar to Sony's instant library, without making it contingent on maintaining an active subscription.

There's tens of millions of Xbox 360 owners who don't have Gold subscriptions, and lots of 48 hour codes floating around out there. If MS *were* to do the insane thing and offer a dozen (or even a few) free recent-ish games that don't require an active subscription, you can imagine what would happen.

I'm sure there's some sort of middle ground - they just haven't found it yet.

Max and Halo are available now for XBOne and Dark Souls is available for 360. Also, as with PS+, you can "buy" the games through the XBox marketplace on PC and add them to your account, even if you don't own an XBOne.

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